High Speed Rail in the U.S. (On Track?) - CBS Sunday Morning 8/23/2009

[radiodj1520]

I Believe This Was A Video Clip Of CBS News' Sunday Morning's Sunday Morning Cover Story Report On High Speed Rail In The U.S. (On Track?) On Sunday Morning, August 23, 2009.

[spatter188]

California’s high-speed rail system is going nowhere fast Washington Post Published: November 13 2011

THINGS JUST WENT from bad to worse for high-speed passenger rail in California. After the Golden State’s voters approved a $9 billion bullet-train bond issue in 2008, officials said they could build an 800-mile system by 2020, for $35.7 billion. The cost projection now, as issued by the state Nov. 1: $98.5 billion, with a completion date of 2033.

[MrEiriku]

youre all skanks. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[studolf]

I don't know if this is a good idea. Amtrak has been losing money hand over fist since inception; it's heavily subsidized by taxpayers. Rail is not sustainable, not everyone lives close to a train station, you'll still need a car to get to the station.

[MrEiriku]

@studolf give me a blowjob bitch

[CommunityBuildersSB]

The Tea Party nut-jobs who only believe government should waste its money on more highways should ask themselves what the United States economy will look like once oil reached $150 and $200 per barrel.

Our entire economy is built on the assumption that petroleum for airlines and for automobiles will remain cheap forever.

[CommunityBuildersSB]

The oil companies have spent the last sixty years systematically enslaving Americans, and we're still fighting to get these trains built.

[OleandrFilms]

@CommunityBuildersSB Well said!! I totally agree with you. I do also feel like we're enlsaved and being literally forced to drive (because other options barely even exist besides driving) - just to profit the oil companies and the government (for whom the auto industry is one of the biggest moneymaker). America needs trains, and high-speed rail especially, to continue on. We cannot keep relying on our pathetic cars and on oil dependence. Time to catch-up to the rest of the world!

[MrCC444]

High Speed Rail Project would....

- save the environment

- make many work places

- release roads and airports

- by realing airports, airport-security could better protect airplanetravellers

(- save time)

- need no (more) oil and so u don't have to make business with oil-dictors and other criminal people.

.......

[MrCC444]

@MrCC444 By the way an example for saving time: Traveling from San Francisco to New York City High Speed Train: 10 hours? Airplane (with check-in,...): 6-8 hours? ok, airplane is better here. but who is travelling so much from San F to NY???????????? An other example: San F to LA: High Speed Train from citycenter to citycenter: 2-3 hours (without check-in and all these other things you have on a airport) Airplane: San F Citycenter to Airport: maybe 30 min-1 h.

[MrCC444]

Check-in and boarding: 1-3 h

Fly: 1.5 h

Check-out: 1 h

LA Airport to citycenter: 30 min -1 h

= 4.5-7.5 hours

[sideslide23]

the Fed has cut spending on the CAHSR so the California probably wont be built but DesertXpress will make it for shure there privatly funded and the enviromental review is finish they should start building by the end of this year.

[deliciousmorton]

i totally believe obama.

[spatter188]

As a 4th generation Floridian I support Governor Rick Scott's decision to derail Obama's High-speed rail pipe dream. A total waste of Taxpayer dollars. This project will spend billions of tax dollars to further the special interests of Multi Millionaires like State Senator Paula Dockery. Obama's wasteful expenditure of taxpayer dollars is strongly supported by State Sen. Paula Dockery, a native New Yorker who voted for & supported record tax increases on Floridians in 2009.

[th3gtr0]

@spatter188 What makes you so confident that it's a "total waste of taxpayer dollars?" You ought to look into high-speed rail more.

[hop208]

Pause at 3:36 . It's strange that they wouldn't connect the northeast to midwest. The gap in Ohio looks small.

[mquiroz90]

i want this to happen in 2020 i love to ride in that train

[AmersfoortTristan]

That woman at 7.24 needs to understand that without investments in the economy there will not be the money to pay for education.

If you want something decent you have to invest in something and investing in a technology that can free some of the clogged and failing infrastructure always pays off in the end.

[trainengineer2]

If americans only took advantage of the wonderful rail transit!! I thank god that we are taking advantage of high speed rail now!!

[Simon95able]

MAKE THE HIGH SPEED RAIL ! I want high speed rail in wisconsin !

[ltmikepowell]

@Simon95able Let see, just imagine a train running at 300 km/h from Milwaukee to Nashville. I will like to imagine that.

[evantis121]

NO MORE AMERICAN DOLLARS TO OIL RICH AMERICAN HATING STATES. MORE HIGH SPEED RAIL EQUALS LESS OIL REVENUE TO THESE AMERICA HATERS. BRING IT ON!

[ManicEightBall]

Not mentioned in this video is the fact that Amtrak was supposed to get priority over freight, but that reality never happened. In fact, Amtrak often has to wait for freight trains to go by.

[SuperMegaFart]

i like to eat cheese!

[MrEiriku]

@SuperMegaFart i like to troll, so give me a blowjob bitch

[KentAllard]

01:52

"and a growing interstate highway system provided an attractive alternative to riding the rails" - well of course it would, at that exact same time they were shutting them all down or regulating them out of operation.

[ltmikepowell]

@KentAllard Well, in long distant travel. Road may be the least you want to travel.

[zedcell]

hi speed trains r the future

[truenorthcorn]

lol the lady at 7:40 probably work for teacher's union

[VilquinProductions]

We really need high-speed rail in the US to save the American passenger train. Amtrak is speedy on their Northeast Corridor from Washington DC to Boston, but elsewhere, as fast as freight trains around 50 miles per hour. Plus, Amtrak doesn't go to places like Madison, Wisconsin or Fort Meyers, Florida. So, this is big. Thanx fur sharin'! 5 thumbs up!

[KentAllard]

@VilquinProductions

Its not Speedy, Boston to New York is three and a half hours - the Paris to Marseilles railway is just 23 miles longer and the journey is done in an hour and 57 minutes.

The reason is the TGV train uses an excluisive High-Speed Railway, while the Acela is forced to use existing commuter & regional and freight railways and its not a very good train anyway.

[VilquinProductions]

@KentAllard But its much faster than Amtrak elsewhere. I'd say 80 mph is not too shabby. But beside the point, Amtrak is run on government funds from the states it services because Amtrak isn't creating much revenue and disbanding more routes than created. With high speed rail, profits will be made, the project can expand and we could be connected like in Europe. But we have to start building high-speed rail so Boston to New York travel only takes 45 or so minutes.

[KentAllard]

@VilquinProductions

Its shabby compared to France.

Not too shabby by American standards maybe, or undeveloped backwaters.

And government funding & operation isn't the issue - SNCF runs Frances TGV and regular railways and they're the government, while British Railway was broken up & privatized in the early 1990s and how are they doing now?

[gibb1991]

@KentAllard Yes, but SNCF is run by a private operator with private investments and stock exchanges. More than 60% of SNCF is owned by the private sector and that number is increasing. Amtrak is 100% government with no private investments or stock exchanges. Britain isn't doing too bad, a lot better than the states. Eurostar recently broke their partnership with SNCF and is now a fully private company.

[KentAllard]

@gibb1991

SNCF is run by the French government.

[KentAllard]

@gibb1991

"Britain isn't doing too bad, a lot better than the states."

Where oh where did you ever get that notion?

The privatization of BritishRail and break up of the network has been an out and out disaster.

[gibb1991]

@KentAllard If you saw the state of government-owned Amtrak you would understand. Britain's rail network is the envy of the USA.

[AmersfoortTristan]

@gibb1991 SNCF is state-owned, sorry.

[gibb1991]

@AmersfoortTristan Right, but SNCF has private investors and a private operator. Amtrak does not.

[ltmikepowell]

@VilquinProductions Many nations in Europe and Asia has benefited from the high-speed railway despite their initial high costs. But the return if well managed, is handsome. Just look at Japan, what a clean country despite all the cities across the land of rising sun.